Here is the "Complete Trash" application. If no one complains of bugs, then I'd say it was ready for the index. It should work in any window manager and any version of Puppy. Let me know of any issues.
EDIT
Uploaded a new version (7-6-2005) Added "exits" to the code. This will keep it from hanging up when something like xmms is playing and the trash trys to play its own sound file.
EDIT #2
Uploaded an updated version. (7-10-2005) You can now drag multiple items to the trash simultaneously. The sound file will also not play at all if another application like xmms is using the sound card. This prevents the delayed trash sound.
EDIT #3
Uploaded a new version (8-30-2005) Used Puppian's idea to keep from restarting the pinboard. Now just the trash icon refreshes. This makes for a quicker refresh and helps a lot on slow hardware. It also works better with Rox 2.20 this way.

Tried the Trash dot pup on a brand new install of 1.0.3 and am having the same problem. I create a file in root. Drag to the desktop and then into the bin.
The file on the desktop changes to a white on red lettering icon which says "ERROR" - so the icon has been deleted but not this "Newfile" which remains on the desktop. Then I tried right clicking and "Empty the trash"
the Newfile entry in the dialogue goes but not from the desktop . . .

If I right click with ROX - I can "Remove the item"

We managed to sort some of it out on the IRC channel. Ian likes the dematerilisation sound the bin makes (this sound is very similar to what happens when rematerilising in a new dimension - so I am told)

using googlescraper (google without the ads)
http://www.scroogle.org/
you can get your bin to talk here: (mine already does but they are changing my medication)
http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/

I am working on my own dot pup and hope to have it tweaked and ready soon. It is a strange piece of software . . . more details soon . . . You lucky Pups

The bin is very useful. You can mount a hard drive with a Windows partition and delete file after file - very therepeutic . . . should keep me amused for years . . .

desktop icons are not files ... they are lines in a config file ( /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin )

if you drag a file to the desktop, it makes a shortcut on the desktop

you can remove that shortcut by right clicking it and clicking Remove Item

if you drag the shortcut to the Trash shortcut, the file will be move to Trash ... the desktop shortcut will not be touched ... if the file is gone, the shortcut is no longer pointing to a file and it will show a red error message

in other words, you can't delete a desktop shortcut by dragging it to the Trash icon

for that matter, it is not easy to create, move, or delete desktop icons from another program, like a script

there are other desktop icon programs ... it's convenient to use rox for the desktop icons, because it's already installed

i don't think the Trash program knows whether a desktop icon or an icon in a rox folder was dragged to it ... i suppose someone could improve the Trash program so it checks if there is a desktop icon linking to any of the trashed files or folders, and if there is, it could edit the pinboard file in Choices to remove it from the desktop (and restart the pinboard so it will disappear) ... if a person was using his own pinboard file rather than the default Puppy pinboard file, that would make it trickier too

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